The Founders of Humanistic Psychology - Hardcover

Decarvalho, Roy Jose

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 027594008X ISBN 13: 9780275940089

Publisher: Praeger, 1991

Synopsis

This intellectual history narrates the institutionalization of the humanistic current in American psychology and places the thinking of five of its founders (Gordon Allport, Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Rollo May, and James Bugental) in the context of twentieth century psychology. The Founders of Humanistic Psychology is the first historical and systematic presentation of humanistic psychology. It is also the only study that treats these five thinkers as a unit and places them in the context of history and systems of Western psychology.

Roy Jose DeCarvalho begins with a discussion of the political institutions that brought this movement together: research facilities, grants, and intellectual stimulation via seminars, conferences, and journals. The text then introduces the biographies of Allport, Maslow, Rogers, May, and Bugental. Following chapters detail the shared views of these five founders with emphasis on the philosophical encounter of humanistic psychology with behaviorism, psychoanalysis, and existentialism. DeCarvalho also examines the impact that the neo-Freudians, Kurt Goldstein, and personality and Gestalt psychologies had on the conceptualization of their humanistic psychology. The methodology, views on human nature, and the ethics of humanistic psychology are also discussed. Ending with a chronological bibliography of each founder of the movement, this book is a valuable research tool for humanistic psychologists, as well as graduate and undergraduate students. Social workers and psychologists, as well as historians and philosophers of the social sciences, will also find this an indispensible source of information about the rise of the humanistic movement.

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About the Author

ROY JOSE DeCARVALHO is Assistant Professor at the State University of New York-Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome. He earned his doctoral degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has research interest in the history of psychology. His publications documenting the history of psychology include The Growth Hypothesis in Psychology: The Humanistic Psychology of Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers, as well as several articles on the founders of humanistic psychology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Praeger
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 027594008X
• ISBN 13: 9780275940089
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232